[000:00:00;00] live live . and the spillover from france's intervention in mali three foreigners killed and dozens taken hostage by islamists during a raid on a gas field in neighboring algeria. the u.s. considering china its biggest threat in cyberspace but look at how it developed in a critical american company outsourced his work to the chinese providing them with all the secrets so he can spend more time on facebook. and keeping a foot in both camps david cameron is set to deliver a king's speech as he struggles to place partners both in the e.u.

and. well a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the mosque i am a real research live with news from all around the. now france is a military campaign against insurgents in mali has provoked its first retaliation by islamists a militant group in neighboring algeria has killed british and french nationals and taken dozens of foreigners hostage in an attack on an energy field and the government reportedly demanded an end to the french operation in mali algerian forces have now surrounded the facility where the hostages are being held in mali after almost a week of intense airstrikes french troops are now battling insurgents in direct clashes on the ground the army is aiming to prevent al qaeda linked rebels who have

seized vast areas of the north of the former french colony from pushing further towards the country's capital is relying on international support in the ongoing operation but former pentagon official michael maloof says that paris is allies may be reluctant to seriously engage in what looks to be a questionable unprotected military standoff. ten years of doing something similar in afghanistan we're ready to pull out taliban's way to move back in so there's some question as to just how effective this approach is going to be and i think that this is something that the french are going to have to to weigh for themselves but it also could bring a number of other countries back into a long drawn out conflict already germany is beginning to show some resistance to this and are concerned about the extent of help that they give simply because they see another protracted effort such as they experienced. in afghanistan. and for now the u.s.

involvement in the mali operation is currently limited to intelligence sharing but many of those who are now fighting the western forces in the country were reportedly trained by american agents as part of a costly program to combat terrorism a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen kwiatkowski says that that's exactly the reason the u.s. and its nato allies should let nations deal with their own problems. we should not be intervening in countries that we don't understand and i mean i think libya and syria stand as present day examples of that iraq and afghanistan also stand as examples of that we can to go to countries where we have an interest and that tends to blind our judgment as to what really is going on on the ground i think if we could let countries kind of settle their problems internally yes people are going to get killed but i think it would be far quicker and far fewer damage to

people's lives to property then when the great powers get involved in that includes eco us in the un i think the government our government the united states wastes a lot of money this is another example of that. plenty more analysis on the ongoing conflict in mali on our website including a political activist from the british stop the war coalition says the government made a grave mistake seeking the help of a power he believes responsible for disaster after disaster in the region since

colonial times. don't forget the comments section to show. he has the. ploy is highly confidential secrets abroad for a little extra time on facebook and for watching videos of cats it's a software developer and what's described as a key infrastructure company in america has quietly outsourced his own work to china. the biggest cyber threat to the u.s. . takes up the story. you may already know that outsourcing is very popular in american companies outsource manufacturing to places like china they outsource services including call centers to places like india american companies outsource jobs all the time but some americans took out sourcing to a whole new level by getting someone in china or elsewhere do work under their name and credentials one of america's largest broadband and telecommunications companies

that most recently caught one software developer doing exactly that someone they refer to as bob paid a software consulting firm in china less than one fifth of his six figure salary to do his job bob gave them all the codes necessary to access the critical infrastructure company's internal system so while the chinese were ransacking the internal system of critical infrastructure company in the us bob devoted his work time to facebook read it. and cat videos seriously his browsing history revealed that's what filled bob's typical workday apparently bob had the same scam going across multiple companies earning several hundred thousand dollars a year and only paying the chinese consulting firm about fifty thousand and you only one of the companies he reportedly received excellent performance reviews for the last several years in a row even being hailed the best software developer in the building it was a sweet deal for bob which is apparently not his real name until the rise and

revealed the breach by accident when they received a request from a us company asking for help in understanding anomalistic to what he was witnessing in his private network an open and active connection from shane young china we here in the us constantly complain about chinese hackers but apparently with employees like bob when you. it is going to right now pakistan remains in the grip of a standoff between protesters and the government we talk to the man at the helm of mass demonstrations who promises a revolution but says it will be different from what we saw in egypt or tunisia also. the israeli nomads forced to keep moving by their government from one place to another to keep areas occupied in its ongoing dispute with palestine that is still ahead of you here on. this year could see the outbreak of a global currency war or the latest warning of

a looming confrontation coming from russia it comes as japan is lowering the yen to boost its exports type ticks already hurting other major currency players with fears of a possible retaliation let's get more details on this now i'm joined in the studio live without going off on a pleasure to see you today thanks for rushing in on this this is pretty scary news indeed russia saying that we are on the brink of a currency war an economy not so far away the global economy indeed is on the brink of a new currency war let me just paint a quick picture for you japan's newly elected prime minister has been dropping the yen and it went down eleven percent since december now europe has already according to experts fired the first round and european financial. authorities they say that with the growing euro that's threatening the european

economy although as you're telling me that the euro has grown exactly despite the eurozone crisis the debt crisis widespread austerity people losing their retirement funds cut downs in health care as well massive unemployment many analysts say the eurozone is has been going down the drain for years. you're telling me the euro's grown exactly a group way seven percent in the last year and now experts say that that's yet another threat to european economies so we may see european financial authorities also start lowering their own deliberately the euro so where's america in all this what's the fed doing i mean we all know i mean the the fed is not exactly the most democratic book in his nations is it now well this again widens the picture since the states pretty much have been printing out books for the past five years so that also makes the dollar cheaper but they've also been looking behind the shoulder of

china which owns the majority of u.s. foreign debt and about what fifty percent of us sit around that is a colossal number exactly and washington has been accusing china also of order fish really holding back its currency so all the dominoes already there in place it's actually all around the world but simple america has been printing money because this is the post of boost local economies i mean i'm not in the economist here and it all sounds a bit murky to me why would america continue printing up all this cash only america basically any state which start their literally making its currency cheaper that's aimed at first of all exports so it makes the country more competitive on the international market which is obviously not really greeted with applause by other states so what happens is a massive retaliation kind of like a domino effect everybody starts making artificially their currency is cheaper the last time we actually saw

a massive currency war was during the times of the great depression part of what led up to the second world war so it's a pretty depressing scenario kind of i mean certainly we talk about a global war scenario here i mean it's certainly except now it's with currencies it might seem to many that policymakers are playing with fire here are they going to sort of thank you for rushing in on this story you know you talk about the global war on terror you talk about the geo strategic positioning of countries around the world ongoing military campaigns here and now you talk about a possible looming global currency war scary stuff indeed thanks for that. it's good to have you with us here and today let's turn our attention now to

pakistan where the standoff between protesters and the government continues authorities already threatening action if the demonstrators don't clear the area near the parliament thousands have been camping there for three days now demanding the government's dissolution now the political chaos in the country has also deepened after the government clashed with a top court order to arrest the prime minister over a graft case was refused officials have accused the judiciary and the military of a conspiracy speculation the military's also had its hand in the sudden rise of the leader of the ongoing protests about. three other muslim cleric has called for a revolution if the demonstrators are not in that now we have exclusively talked to dr all three and he explains how the situation in pakistan is quite different from other arab spring countries. we should keep in your mind

in egypt in tunis in libya and all of these countries. for years and years for a long time and the people stood up against it. the people stood up against it. dystonic is a bit different there is no one else. neither monadic nor immediate. here is electoral authority did it when he and his electorate did get it shipped yes democracy a pretty good process aswell as the durham is concerned does exist there are political parties. they lections to come back in the parliament after every five years but does that true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political. nor in social feed nor in economic democracy. well here are two you are always welcome to get over the top stories we're covering here on the program today you can get involved with our poll at r.t.

dot com we're asking whether you think you're seeing the arab spring now arriving in pakistan let's bring up the options for you right now there are options as you can see running down the list as well some people saying today yes pakistanis have just had enough of corrupt day dictatorships all the protests will die out once the media frenzy comes also other options the few troops from iran out of time let's go and see how your numbers are fluctuating this hour and because of your input the numbers do change hour to hour from artsy dot com but here we have it or fifty three percent the vast majority of you who have gone to our web site the voter saying this is all about western interest in the region coming in pretty far behind we come out this is about an outrage at corruption in pakistan we've certainly heard from the analysts we spoke to was well third position saying the world the protests will simply die down and down to the bare minimum here the minority saying well this is actually a military plot that has been coerced and cooked up in pakistan itself if indeed you haven't had your say or you can always do it was still standing by for your

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. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only. this is ot say thanks for joining us today just a moment on the world update for now they would has been dubbed the big speech as the british prime minister is set to make a tightrope walk this friday between his e.u. partners and euro skeptics at a high end i have a communist trying to overhaul ties with the union office saying he's not happy with certain aspects of the relationship and that's while he still admits he doesn't want to break away from the union and risk upsetting e.u.

leaders and thought he reports cameron may ultimately disappoint everyone as he struggles to try and stop. when the prime minister first became leader of the conservative party he said the biggest problem was that they spent far too much of their time banging on about europe i see glad those days are over i. think countdowns as the prime minister prepares to deliver a landmark speech on europe. warring factions in his own policy growing euro skeptic sentiment in the u.k. and his increasingly unimpressed european counterparts to appease and the pressure is on if he's struggling right now on this issue up till now i think he has he hasn't given a clear message a clear standpoint on the notion of intent for the government on the e.u. and the u.k.'s relationship with it i think has been for

a number of factors whether it be the world economy whether be the economy or whether it be it's his own backbenchers now widely expected that the prime minister will pledge a major european treaty with vision included in that would be a clawing back house to britain in key areas such as economic and social laws that govern labor and pretty thing in criminal justice with the need that british membership in the e.u. would then be put to the country's citizens in a referendum and after the next general election i think you've really got to. really painted himself into a corner where he's got to have a referendum after an election and he will try a skillful politician if he is to paper over the cracks to give a bit to them. and say that we now are looking for europe to make a response to our proper requests that it will be

a very. confident speech until you actually analyze it and you see that he's asking for the e.u. to behave in a way that it's not ok. hell. labor say a referendum would be condemning britain to here is uncertainty you can't say the prime minister with talk of repatch nation is being misleading and they struggle in style they say lacking in substance it is a red herring to be made absolutely clear. commit sure. that the european union is a one train journey there is no reverse with his speech under such scrutiny maybe david coming to get some inspiration to know the conservative leader he's relationship with the e.u. was often strained to try to suppress mission and concentrate power of the center of the european kong would be highly damaging and would jeopardize the objectives to

a tree in margaret thatcher's memorable speech she set herself against the european superstate exercising and need dominance from brussels all yuri skeptics often forget is that margaret thatcher balance those warnings with a staunch defense a person place at the heart of. the truth is though that these days and that speech will be a hard sell it's growing and. sentiment it's uncertain whether he'll even be able to please those within his party and you will know europe has been an issue in the tory party for the best part of thirty forty years i mean the rest of us sidelined can't believe that this is going on this is a figure for angry family squabble all out in the open i mean screwing the tory party with say much riding on the speech he tries to please everyone david cameron munter the very real risk of pleasing no one. and say the time has come for the big

speech delayed so many times already it's being nicknamed the tomorrow and tomorrow and murray speech it's now expected you get some more sarah. lunde. to r.t. on friday will bring you our special coverage of david cameron's big speech on europe. well let's get into it now the will start with this story here that thousands of kurds have gathered in the southeast of the morial for three female activists killed last week in paris one of the women who was a co-founder of the separatist p k k party leader is currently serving a life sentence on an island prison and the ceremony comes amid the ongoing standoff between the turkish government and p.k. came that it's. an al qaeda linked militant group in somalia says it has executed

a french intelligence agent who france's military forces tried to rescue in a botched operation last week at the time french officials said they believe the agent was killed on the night of the raid following the failed rescue attempt a militant said paris would be responsible for the man's death or the hostage code named denise alex was kidnapped three and a half years ago and have been held ever since. president barack obama has unveiled changes to current gun legislation rules in the u.s. in the wake of the connecticut elementary school shooting that claimed twenty six lives the proposals include placing police in schools and a ban on assault weapons the president used his powers over executive action to bring a number of changes into immediate effect bypassing congress however the house will still have to approve keep hose holes and some experts believe its close relationship with influential gun lobby groups could scupper the president's plan these changes. members of congress are worried about are not how they do in the

general election but how they do in the primaries so even if they may personally support you know more background checks smaller magazines what have you what they're worried about is that in the primary they get an n.r.a. funded more right wing opponent who comes in and call them a gun grabber and then all of a sudden out of a job so that's going to be a big obstacle. now israel is advancing at such a woman plans is suing tenders for two hundred more housing units to be built in the west bank meanwhile an israeli and settlement group has released a report saying the government is stepping up construction in strategic areas to quote prevent the creation of a viable palestinian state and many israeli settlers share the feeling that the issue has a purely political agenda. i v four hundred is wary about unpacking again he's already been forced to move twice first from the israeli settlement of in the sinai peninsula and then twenty three years later from the settlement of gaza in

a move television hoped would inspire peace both times his government had encouraged him to put down roots in the settlements and both times his government forced him out is a good argument for why government betrayed me it betrayed the people it sent to settle the land and build their lives there but it's a mistake a mistake that should be fixed. but first of all in the thousands of other former gaza settlers need to fix their lives a group of them live here in central israel in small temporary structures they built with the own money some of the laws the government didn't do what it was supposed to do and didn't rehabilitate us we have no roof over our heads. so when prime minister benjamin netanyahu announces the approval of thousands of new city units the settler movement while police can't help but feel suspicious that they are merely being used as chess pieces in the government's political game. it's obvious to everyone that all of a sudden there is approval of big construction plans what does that mean that i'm

supposed to vote for netanyahu or someone else i'd be happy rather to have a prime minister who will approve construction in any part of israel. tamera brain works for property development group in a neighborhood in east jerusalem that has passed the pre nine hundred sixty seven green line construction here is controversial but the waiting list of hopeful buyers is overflowing i think the government of newton now realizes that most important for them now is to give the settlers what they want because the constituency of liquid part of the party is the far right and they're playing into their hands and unfortunately not in the hands of the general public interest but could these new city units be bashed on in the future like what happened to the settlements in gaza and you meet yes there is the simple amount of uncertainty but

you know when we created this country when we established. four years ago there was even a greater level of uncertainty we are not cheap on the table we are thriving communities with fourth generation israelis that were born and we are here to stay and for as long as the governments on this side of the settlement abate they're staying at least for now but a showdown is inevitable israel says its settlements are an issue to be discussed during negotiations but palestinians say they won't hold peace talks while israel builds on land they want for a future state policy r.t. tell of of. ok and no news in about a half an hour's time but up ahead for you just around the corner that's our

special report made in america. congress' approval rating has hit an all time low never has american record history been so disappointed with the lawmaking body the united states even former arkansas governor mike huckabee said that their approval ratings are just barely above the pedophile so i guess that's good news for the disgusting pedophiles out there so you won't be the most hated group in america anymore but i don't think this statistic reflects the quality of government but so much the quality of the governed in some small country with a hard to pronounce name if the government became that unpopular the country would simply collapse but no matter how many wars congress gets involved in and no matter how many jobs are shipped overseas or no matter how much the american dream gets stamped out everyone still relish round obama and votes democrat and republican this popularity rating doesn't show how effective the government is it shows how arrogant they are because they seem to have no fear whatsoever of not getting reelected or being punished in any way for their bad behavior so you know congress

i have to save us keep up the good work go for one percent popularity and maybe someone will actually do something about you but that's just my opinion. my little brother was going to school six in the morning and you got him is going to school so you got the sick of this world there are no more need just to do some like that. we've been burying want to freeze and we've actually. at the funeral when another one of our wait gets killed at the funeral and then. so as we live amongst each other there might be one street it might be one gas station the service too with three different gangs when i get to the gas station i

have to find out what are your intentions with me while i'm pumping gas so i cannot turn my back and allow you to shoot me or hit me in the back of here to look you in your eyes and see your intentions and when i look you in your eyes i'm looking to see if you all will feel wolf and i'm a wolf then we need to come to some sort of agreement so we can both get out of here peacefully. and if your porch up i'm happy with me gone get my guestbook up i appreciate you being here when i was in the communities talking to guys in the game seeing lots of content and with that so many of these particularly the younger guys had never seen the pacific ocean in a gang infested community there are situations where people will not believe a given ten block radius for years polite this method though they don't go no where they got a fuck about it to the bottle out of. because they don't known that. he's been top man they're doing quick you did it's what they call slip it don't get caught slip